An hour ago I decided to change my almost 2 week old chicks’ brooder bedding from paper towel to aspen shavings. I put a half inch layer down and put the chicks in. They started to peck at the shavings which are too big for them to eat. After 10 minutes they all lined up in a circle and started...
I have a few 1 weel and a half old quail chicks. Two are tibetan, two silver and the rest are some sort of brown kind. Three of the 'some sort of brown kind' are developing these dark patches at the base of their beaks. I only noticed it two days ago. They seem to be healthy.
Is this some sort...
I incubated 11 quail eggs and so far eight hatched. Out of the three remaining eggs only one pipped. That egg first pipped at the same time as chick number eight. After number eight hatched, the egg seemed to be making good progress, except it would crack the shell, just not the membrane. After...
I am hatching a small batch of 11 quail eggs. Today is day 16 and four of them hatched. They were fine in the incubator, pushing around other pipped eggs until one got stuck (its quite complicated). I quickly openned the incubator and got the hatched chicks out safely (yay) and closed it in no...